u sang de France, qu'il ne s'en fust trouve mal."
De Thou, ii. 830.]

[Footnote 944: "He remaineth close in a house, and no man permitted to
speak with him; and his process is in hand. And I hear he shall now be
committed to the castle of Loches, the strongest prison in all this
realm." Sir Nich. Throkmorton, November 17, 1560, _ubi supra_, i. 138.]

[Footnote 945: La Place, 75, _ubi supra_; De Thou, ii. 832, 833 (liv.
26); Sommaire recit, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 946: La Planche, 402.]

[Footnote 947: Ib., 401; La Place, 75; Sommaire recit, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 948: La Planche, 400; Castelnau, liv. ii., c. 10.]

[Footnote 949: Sommaire recit, _ubi supra_. "For, being a prince of the
blood, he said, his process was to be adjudged either by the Princes of
the blood or by the twelve Peers; and therefore willed the Chancellor
and the rest to trouble him no further." Throkmorton, Nov. 28, 1560,
Hardwick, State Papers, i. 151. Castelnau (liv. ii., c. 11) has, by a
number of precedents, proved the validity of this claim.]

[Footnote 950: Memoires de Conde, i. 619, containing the royal _arret_
of Nov. 20th, rejecting Conde's demand; Sommaire recit. The (subsequent)
First President of parliament, Christopher de Thou, was, after
Chancellor L'Hospital, the leading member of the commission. His son,
the historian, may be pardoned for dismissing the unpleasant subject
with careful avoidance of details. La Planche makes no mention of the
chancellor in connection with the case, but records Conde's indignant
remonstrance against so devoted a servant of the Guises as the first
president acting as judge.]

[Footnote 951: La Planche, 399.]

[Footnote 952: La Planche, 401; Davila, 37, 38; Castelnau, l. ii., c.
12. The unanimous voice of contemporary authorities, and the accounts
given by subsequent historians, are discredited by De Thou alone (ii.
835, 836), who expresses the conviction, based upon his recollection of
his father's statement, that the sentence was drawn up, but never
signed. He also represents Christopher de Thou as suggesting to Conde
his appeal from the jurisdiction of the commission, and opposing the
violent designs of the Guises.]

[Footnote 953: La Planche, 401; Castelnau, liv. ii., c. 12.]

[Footnote 954: La Planche, 405, 406, has preserved this striking speech,
which I have somewhat condensed in the text. Agrippa d'Aubigne, Histoire
universelle, _ubi supra_.]

[Footnote 955: La Planche, it may be n